Meriden, a city of Connecticut, 19 miles by rail N. by E. of New Haven, with a number of manufactories of metal wares, cutlery, firearms, woollens, &c. Meriden contains the state reform school. Pop. (1880) 15,540; (1890) 21,230.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 142
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